Clinical Pharmacist Band 6/7

• To provide a specialist Clinical Pharmacy service to clinical teams as part of the multidisciplinary approach.
• To provide patient and carer information on medication taking and identifying the wider services to support them.
• To take responsibility for delivering against agreed performance indicators for Clinical Pharmacy. Provision includes clinical intervention, monitoring, antimicrobial stewardship, clinical audit, and provision of summary reports.
• To ensure safe, cost-effective use of medicines for inpatients, outpatients, and day patients.
• Undertake service evaluation to optimise the use of medicines.
• To supervise dispensary activities professionally, efficiently, and accurately ensuring the dispensing of appropriate medicines.
• Support the introduction of a rotational programme of pharmacists across the Trust.
• To deputise for the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist as needed for range of duties including homecare and mental health services.
• The post holder will take part in the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Service advisory on-call rota on a pro rata basis.

• Adhere to Trust incident reporting procedures.
• Work as part of the multi-disciplinary team in clinical areas to provide specialist clinical pharmacy information in relation to safe use of medicines.
• Develop positive working relationships of the multi-disciplinary team and staff contracted through pharmacy service level agreements.
• Promote best practice in physical assessment of service users on admission to hospital associated with the safe use of medicines.
• Audit practice to ensure that physical health and mental health assessment information is available and used as part of medicines reviews.
• Audit practice to ensure that service users are informed about unlicensed/off label and high dose prescribing when it occurs.
• Design, planning, implementation, collation, reporting, analysis, presentation, action planning of medicines audits to address locally determined medicines issues and national audits.
• Support the training and education of junior staff members and undergraduates undertaking a placement or involved in research/ evaluation.
• To participate in the pharmacy service out of hours provision.

Essential

• Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy
• One year postgraduate, pre-registration experience

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy and/or Psychiatric Therapeutics (or working towards) or equivalent
• Experience of working as a Clinical Pharmacist

Essential

• Current and continued registration and membership with The General Pharmaceutical Council (practising member)